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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1930.
THE SILVER SCREEN.
THE TALK OF HOLLYWOOD,
Misa Fay Marbe, the famous vaudeville artiste, is starred in the all-talking picture," The Talk of Hollywood," which will be featured attraction at the Majestic Theatre, Kowloon, to-day. It is a story be hind the scenes in Hollywood and shows the trials and tribulations of making motion pictures.
PRISON LIFE IN CHINA
UNIVERSITY LECTURER'S
ADDRESS.
HUMANISING THE SYSTEM.
A young Chinese university lec turer, who as a student had gained permission to become a voluntary prisoner and so study prison con. ditions at first haad, gave an address
Mr. Nas Carr has a wonderful human interest role, and Mission Chinese prisons at the luncheon
| Kurbe as the gay Parisian leading woman, puts the pep into a per- formance that scintillates with a ballet of pretty girls, a snappy orchestra and plonty of musien numbers and dances.
This is the only chance to see Miss Marbe's famous sings act which she performs in "Thú Talk of Hollywood," as she never ap- pears outside of the big vaudeville houses in the big cities in America and Europe.
THEATRE ON A LAKE.
NOVEL PERFORMANCE OF
***LA BOHEMEJ·
of the Howard League for Penal Reform in London last month,
Mr. Ching. Yueh Yen, is now an instructor in social science at the Yeuching Missionary- University in Peiping, and the aspect of social science to which be intends to de yote his life is prison,reform. Ho has been visiting prisons in Eng land, and is shortly going to. America to visit Arjaans there.
The idea of establishing a prison system that would not only keep reforming them, only took root in criminala in eustody, but aim at
China, he said, after two delegates who had been sent to a prison re- form conference in Washington at the beginning of this century, brought back reports of what they had learned in the United States, and in the prisons they had visited in all the European countries. China immediately began a reform movement by building 79 prisons all over the country. Mr. Yen throw, an interesting light on China's capacity for progress whon he said that these were at first call- ed model prisons, and then it was. realised that they could not stand as models because they must be changing all the time to meet new idens.
New
"The itinerant theatres that aro touring Italy to bring good drama within reach of the people at popular prices have now been com. pleted by a "Cart of Thespis," which is devoted entirely to the performance of Italian opora. This new ventare was inaugurated at
After the revolution a separate Torre del Lago, a little village supervise all the new prisons, and prison department was not up to
about half-way between Pisa and six months later a very successful Viareggio, on the border of the national prison congress was held. The administrative system in these Lake of Massaciuccoli. The opera prisons was much the same as in given was "La Bohème," in com- other countrics. Each prison, how- memoration of Puccini, whose coun-
over small, had a resident doctor, whose duties included supervision of try house is the great feature of the prisoners' diet and living con-- Torre del Lago. It was the comditions, and all prisoners under the poser's favourite residence, where be wrote much of his best music, and after his untimely death in Brussels his remains were brought back to Italy to rest in the little chapel, attached to the villa.
age of 20 received two hours' educa- tion was given by representativer tion each day. Religious instruc
of all the many religions in China, and people who would come to preach on Sunday were always wol-
come.
Mr. Yon added that the number of willing preachers was '60 great that they could not a bo accommodated on Sunday but had. to be distributed over the week-dnya? as well.
M.
Never before, porhape, has an opera been, staged in such a unique situation. The collapsible theatre which has been built at Milan, with a stage measuring 26 feet by 20,
A Voluntary Prisoner, was set up on a pontoon in the middle of the lake, about 00_feet
Explaining why he became & from tho
shore, facing Villa
voluntary prisoner, Mr., You said Puccini. The wide open space be-
that as a student of sociology he tween the house and the lake was
took a course in cirminology, but be covered by semi-circles of scats, found that there were no Chinese with room for about 7,000 persons, Powerful flood-lights concentrated he wanted about Chinese prisons. books to give him the information on the stage, and the effect of the
His professor, who Was music coming from the little theatro Prison Commissioner in. Chinn, can. isolated in space, with the.dim ontsented to his ides of studying con- lines of the encircling hills rising ditions from the inside, and made it behind, and the breken reflections possible for him to get into grol playing on the water, was of ex-
on the supposed charge of petty traordinary charm.
theft. Mr. Yen, was quite happy
Nothing was spared to make the performanct an artistic event of ex- eoptional importance. Singers, or- chestra, and choruses, ware all
rought from the
Scala" opera house at Milan. Mascagni himself conducted the music, while the stage Janagement was in the bands of Giovacchino Forzano, the dramatic author, who, was also permanent organiser of all the Carts of Theapis.
It was the height of the season at the fashionable bathing places on the Tuscan coast, and the demand fur sents for the Torre del Lago per- formance was far larger than could be supplied..
The day after the performance, the stage was dismounted and pack- ed up, and theatre and company together travelled straight to Bel gium, where, four special open-air performances of Italian opera were given, at Antwerp and Liège.
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whoo ho was shut up with his books till at four o'clock; when ho was Accustomed to set out for a walk. he realised, what it meant to be locked in, and found that even though ho was a voluntary prisoner it was impossible to concentrate on his work. That was his first lesson in prison paychology'.
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p.m.-Close down, p.m.-Chinese programine.
p.m.-European programme of Columbia racords supplied by Messrs. Anderson Music Co.. With Sword and Lance"-March and Light of Foot-March, Rogimental Band of HM Grenadier Ganrde. Just Like in a Story Book" and ** I'm in the Market for You.”—-
Layton and Johnstone, Duct. The Maid of the Mountains
Afterwards he worked with other prisoners in the carpenter's shop,
11 to 11.30 am-Commercial nowe, but the friendliness shown to him by the Governor, the only man who 11,30 am--Chinees programme, knew his secret, told his mates that 12.30 p.m.-European programme, he was no ordinary prisoner. He 1.30 p.m.-Weather report. spent the test of his vacation in the princu na n visitor, and was permitted to receive ami question 15 each printer in turn in his room. 7 Assured of his sympathy the men spoke to him with perfect franknoER (I soon found," he said, "that they were just like ordinary people). Some of the cases of crime were due to biological or psychological disturbances, but many cases were due to unemployment, poverty, or disease. They made rae think that criminals are not very bad people, but the outcasts of a society that does not care for them. When thoy went out of prison there was no one to look after them. Now we aro trying to do after-care work. I get many letters from ex-prisonora that have taught me the import- ance of sympathy and understand- ing in this work. The human ele- ment must be taken into considera- tion."
Mr. Yen anid that in China people were not, as a rule, hanged for murder. But if a man killed his
parents he would undoubtedly be banged unless he were proved in- same, and if any murder were ne companied by robbery the criminal might be hanged. Otherwise mur- der meant a life sentence and re- lense at the end of ten years. There were special good conduct pardons for life prisoners. An or- dinary criminal sentenced to five or
imprisonment, ten years expect release through
his term. It used to bo the rule in China that when a man was sentenced for killing his fathor or mother, the magistrate was also punished but less drastically, be. cause he had not exercised adequate
the aupervision and prevented crime, but that law was now a dead letter.
when hight!
Mr. Yen said that in many of the prisons, wages were paid to prison- ers, the food was as good as the ordinary dist outside, and, few pria- oners tried to escape. Indeed, prisoners often dreaded release in the winter. and many people in Peiping finding the struggle for a livelihood too hard, came into
winter. prison in the
Chinese prisons, he said, wore frail affairs. A special prison had been built for the Russians because the ordinary gaol would not hold them.
All the women's prisons were in the charge of women officers, and the prisoners had not very much to do. The probation system was 'ap- plied much more to women than to men, and whenever it was possible women were released on probation.
"HIT OR MISS" SCHOOLS.
PRIVATE Chief
HOLLYWOOD
starring
NAT CARR
The famous Stage Comedian with
Fay Marbe
The International Star and
AL GOODMAN'S ORCHESTRA, THE LEONIDOff Ballet.
A musical screen play of life back stage in the glamorous cinema city.
Talking
IT'S ALL Dancing
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ESTABLISHMENTS
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A cortain type of private school criticised recently by Mr. Frank Roscoe, scoretory of the Royal Society of Teachers.
Speaking at the City of London Vacation Course in Education, he Baid:
"As things are, any street hawker may abandon his barrow and open a private school. In this country we have thousands of private schools, many of them extremely good. But there are many which are utterly worthless as places of instruction.
"Evon in our State schools some thousands of persons are engaged as teachers without any ascertain- ablo qualifications for the work.
"The hit or miss method of kindly amateurs will no longer serve. Wo must place teaching on a professional basis with a roll of recognised practitioners and a sense of corporate responsibility.'
Comparing the schools of to-day with the schools of the future, Mr. Roses said that to-day now schools.
vocal gems. Columbia Light Opera Co.
"You're in Love and I'm in Love"
and "What Wouldn't I Do for: That Man Ruth Etling. Comedienne.
English Medley" (Evans).-The
Maestros (Vocal. Quintette). "Sons O'Gune-Why" and "Cross Your Fingers."-Billy Step- hene, Bartone.
The Tromboneer" and The Troubadours."-Trombons Duct A Pair of Blue Eyes" and "I
by Robinson and Boam.
Feel You Near Me," Layton and Johnstone, Duet. **The
Policeman'a Holiday!! (Ewing). Organ Solo by Tor alico Casey.
$ p.m.-
From the Studio: Mr. Harry-
Boloist) Ore (Pianoforte
"Bixth Sonata," Boothoven. Softly Awakes My Heart"
Bran (Saint-Saens)-Muriel
skill, Contralto,
"In A Persian Garden."-Hubert
Eisdell, Tenor. From the Studio: Mr. Harry O (Pianoforte Soloist)- "Prelude 17" and "Valse
No. No. 5," Chopin. "Sea Wrack" (O'Neill).-Muriol The Midnight Review" (New
Brunskill, Contralto.
march). Robert Easton, Bass. From the Studio: Mr. Harry Ore (Pianoforte Soloist): (a) " Monk's Prayer."! - (b) "Two Butterflies." (e)
"The Hungary Horse Rings
the Bell."
These three numbers are Can- tonese songs transcribed by Harry Ore.
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(d) Sixth Hungarian Rhap.
sody," Liszt.
pm. Weather report, local time.
and Press news.
DANCE PROGRAMME.
0.05 p.m.-
1. Fox Trot" Here in My Heart" and "That Night in Venice,"
Fox Trot "Tea for Two and "I Want to to Happy."
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CHARLES FARRELL
Sambun
Frank Kanarison
Makale White Directed by
EVO BUTLER
NEXT CHANGE
FREE EASY
QUETEA
BUSTEN KEATON Talks and Sings! Sea and Hear
WILLIAM HAINES AMITA PAQE FRED HIÁLO
TROIE FRIGANZA
ROBERT EKONTGOMERY LIONEL BARRYMORE
KARL DANE CECIL: B. DE MILLE many more!
ALL LAUGHS!. ALL STARS!
-it's a
3. Waltz When It's Spring,
time in the Rockies and riot! "I'm Falling in Love Again."-
4. Fox Trot-"The E gue Song" and. When I'm Looking at You,"
WWe Nood
-5. BlueB-** Bweetheart
Each Other."
6. Waste You're Always in
My Arma."
7. "You Gotta be Modernistic,” One Step, and "Can I Help It," Fox Trot.
8. Eightsome Reol.
and
D. Fox Trot-"Wonder"
"Where Can You Be" 10. Fox Trot-"Painting the Clouds with Suvshine" and
Pala Forever.
11. Fox Trut" You Taught M
All I Know" and " Mother's Smile."
12. Waltz Just An Old Re- frain and Somewhere in My Heart"
11 pm-Close down.
DRINKING AFTER HOURS.
MAN WRONGLY SUMMONED
VANITARI
WORLD
TO-DAY TO SATURDAY AT 2.30, 5.15, 7.15. & 9.20.
WARNER BROS DOLORES
COSTELLO
NOAHS ARK
STAR
For selling intoxicants after were being built with close regard witted hours at the Comique CFINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY to the bodily needs of children.
Rupert-strvct, W., Thomas Andrew - At 6.80. & 9.20, 7 We are even beginning to rid Ling, of Kingsway, was at Bow- ourselves of the tyranny of iron street Polics Court last month or framed deska and to pay attention dored by Sir Chartres Biron ta to the value of bright colours in pay a fine of Las and £25 costs. At school decoration We have still, the previous hearing several mon however, far too many schools in and wonen guests were fined for which the class rooms are planned legally consuming intoxicants, en the old model with desks in and the club was then ordered to neat rows, a place for every boy or Le struck off the register and the for the teacher, and premises dizqualified from being us walls coloured in bathroom greabed as a club for two years. above a liver-coloured dado.
When Mr. William Childs, of In the schools of to-morrow, the Palaco (Theatre, Plymouth, was or perhaps the day after, we shall summoned at Bow-street Police have workrooms in place of class Court for illegally consuming in- rooms. We shall have chairs and toxicants in the Camique Club tables of various heights. Each Rupert-atroot, W., at the time of a room will be pleasingly coloured police raid, Mr. Melville, prose- and equipped, often with the aid of cuting for the police, asked for the pupils who use it most."
a
Inquests were hold in London on a large number of victims of the recent heat wave. It was stated
the ease to be withdrawn. He said that at the time of the raid one of the guests gave Mr. Childs', name and address, and a summon, was accordingly served upon him. But when Mr. Childa arrived, at the
at a Poplar inquest on a woman af Court it was quite clear that ho seventy-three that she was takon was not one of the persons found. to hospital with a temperature of in the club. It was unfortunate 110 degrees, which Dr. W. Bentley that he had been summoned, but. Purchase, the deputy coroner, said the mistake was dus to someone Can the highest-temperature of giving a false name and addro
which he had heard. Temperatures The Magistrato make ch of 100, and 105 were mentioned in mons "Withdrawn."
land Childs left the Court. other cases investigated."
Mr.
MARION
DAVIES
Quality Street
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